A trio of Aberdeen Carolina & Western F-units are seen in Star, North Carolina, on October 18th, 2008. ACWR F7A 4500 is the former OHCR 1000 (and before that, GETY 1863, GETY 81A, DAKR 81A, MILW ... (more)

Laurinburg & Southern's engine facility in Laurinburg, North Carolina, has a number of older locomotives, giving it the feel of a railroad museum. Seen just outside the enginehouse are LRS SW1500... (more)

Joint Powers Board (CalTrain) train 432, with CalTrain F40PH-2 912 on the point, arrives at the Broadway Station in Burlingame, California, on the San Francisco Peninsula's commute service. At th... (more)

Fort Worth & Western SD40-2 2016, the "Sundance Kid," was built as Southern Pacific SD40 8449, later renumbered SP 7353 and then sold to NREX as their 7353.

Rounding the curve and popping out of the fog just east of Monolith, California, is BNSF Railway train M-RICBAR1-09A (Regular Merchandise, Richmond CA to Barstow CA). There is a nice variety of p... (more)

A typically eclectic set of Southern Pacific power lays over at the road's West Anaheim Yard in Anaheim, California, on April 18, 1992: Two GP35s, an SW1500 and a pair of GP9s. GP35 6351 is the ... (more)

Former-Rio Grande SW1200 134 now works for the Gavilon Grain elevator of Saginaw, Texas. Photographed on private property with permission.

Union Pacific train ZLCAI 14 (Expedited Intermodal; Los Angeles CA to Atlanta Intermodal GA) slows to a crawl as it approaches Palomares Street in Pomona, California. It seems that half the cross... (more)

Metrolink train #662 (Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel / Mission Viejo) crosses Santa Ana Boulevard as it rolls into the Santa Ana Transportation Center, making its stop 13 minutes late. Power for th... (more)

Good Friday indeed! One of Union Pacific's two SD70Ms painted to serve on the Olympic Torch Relay train for the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, was found sitting all by itself at the north... (more)

The BARWAT, BNSF Railway's daily merchandise train from Barstow to Watson, California, provides some variety from the steady parade of intermodal trains found on this line. On March 30th, 2012, t... (more)

What a shock! A unit assigned to Anaheim without graffiti on it.

On the last day of summer 2008, Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 (along with a trio of Amtrak P42DCs) is on the point of train A9572 1-21A, the 24 car American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners specia... (more)

A pair of Southern Pacific GP9s switch cars at Martinez, California, in late April 1971. SP 3609 is the former SP 5768, and 3602 (still wearing its old "Black Widow" colors) was built as SP 5761.... (more)

Working the Southern Pacific yard at City of Industry, California, on March 2, 1975, are a pair of early Espee SDs: SD9 3960 and SD7 1430. SD9 3960 is wearing its second roadnumber (originally S... (more)